BP plans this week to deploy a 4-foot-diameter containment dome to try to contain some of the oil gushing from a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP CEO Tony Hayward said today.
In a conference call with reporters, Hayward said the new dome, known as a “top hat,” will take at least 72 hours to put in place.
The smaller dome, which is 5 feet tall, is being used instead of the 40-foot tall concrete-and-steel containment chamber that the company tried to use Friday. Slushlike ice crystals known as hydrates clogged the larger chamber when BP tried to lower it over the damaged well.
“We’ve gone from one extreme to another,” Hayward said.
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